Welcome to Aquaculture in the Pacific region

Our goal:
provide a Pacific Island forum dedicated to promoting “economically, socially and environmentally sustainable aquaculture development among Pacific communities”.

And purpose:
· Be a virtual focal point for aquaculture networking in the Pacific Islands.
· Serve as an information clearing-house mechanism.
· Highlight best practices for aquaculture development.

Aquaculture has had a chequered history in the Pacific with many initiatives that had not borne fruit in terms of sustainable outcomes. Now it appears that the tide has turned and that past investment are beginning to pay off. New, viable industries are beginning to be established and are returning substantial economic and social benefits. Hopefully this web-site will help to contribute to the progress of aquaculture.

This site is maintained by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) an inter-governmental organisation with twenty-two Pacific Island members. Click on map below for an enlarged version of the SPC region.

Acknowledgements :
Sources for information and pictures include: FAO Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific Islands (SAPA), Pacific Islands Development Program, WorldFish Center. We acknowledge the Pacific Island member governments who also contributed various information and pictures. Funding for this portal was provided through the Australian government agency AusAID.

Read our Plan of Action:	Download our free software of Economic Farm Models Economic models for aquaculture and agriculture commodities (10.7 Mb)
SPC Aquaculture Action Plan 2002 (1,047 kb)	or download models separately: pearl (621 kb), tilapia (483 kb), freshwater shrimp (433 kb), penaeus prawn (431 kb), rice (367 kb), dalo (366 kb), net fishing (388 kb), line fishing (389 kb), sugar cane (938 kb), copra (370 kb) and seaweed (367 kb)